This tablet has an account in Sumerian cuneiform ... with a stylus. So cuneiform writing was a stylised picture of an impression of a token representing a commodity. No wonder nobody had made ...

But figuring out what it meant was a challenge. To learn cuneiform, first you have to learn Sumerian. This is no small feat, not least because Sumerian is thought by most scholars to be a language ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

By 1600 BC, no Sumerian speakers were alive, but cuneiform was still used for another thousand years. Today, it strikes us a somehow hauntingly familiar: cool, hard, palm-sized tablets onto which ...

But the sheer number of texts, and the tiny number of Akkadian readers — a language no one has spoken ... Akkadian and its predecessor, Sumerian, were written using cuneiform, in which a ...

Marquis: I got questions, and you don’t have no answers ... of the Penn Museum shows a tablet with the Sumerian bar joke written in large, untidy cuneiform script. (WBUR/Ben Brock Johnson ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello ...

First developed around 3200 B.C. by Sumerian scribes in the ancient city-state of Uruk, in present-day Iraq, as a means of recording transactions, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed ...